WEST VIRGINIA CODE

WVC 17 C- 15 - 33
§17C-15-33. Horns and warning devices.
(a) Every motor vehicle when operated upon a highway shall
be equipped with a horn in good working order and capable of
emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of
not less than two hundred feet, but no horn or other warning
device shall emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or a
whistle. The driver of a motor vehicle shall when reasonably
necessary to insure safe operation give audible warning with his
horn but shall not otherwise use such horn when upon a highway.

(b) No vehicle shall be equipped with nor shall any person
use upon a vehicle any siren, whistle, or bell, except as
otherwise permitted in this section.

(c) It is permissible but not required that any commercial
vehicle be equipped with a theft alarm signal device which is so
arranged that it cannot be used by the driver as an ordinary
warning signal.

Any authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with a
siren, whistle, or bell, capable of emitting sound audible under
normal conditions from a distance of not less than five hundred
feet and of a type approved by the department, but such siren
shall not be used except when such vehicle is operated in
response to an emergency or in the immediate pursuit of an actual
or suspected violator of the law, in which said latter events the
driver of such vehicle shall sound said siren when reasonably
necessary to warn pedestrians and other drivers of the approach
thereof.

Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2016 Regular Session
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